非光滑可积性理论

Non-smooth integrability theory

Economic Theory · 2024
被引 1
人大 A-ABS 3

中文导读

研究从不可微但局部利普希茨的需求函数候选计算效用函数的方法,给出需求函数的新充要条件,并应用于计量经济学理论。

Abstract

Abstract We study a method for calculating the utility function from a candidate of a demand function that is not differentiable, but is locally Lipschitz. Using this method, we obtain two new necessary and sufficient conditions for a candidate of a demand function to be a demand function. The first concerns the Slutsky matrix, and the second is the existence of a concave solution to a partial differential equation. Moreover, we show that the upper semi-continuous weak order that corresponds to the demand function is unique, and that this weak order is represented by our calculated utility function. We provide applications of these results to econometric theory. First, we show that, under several requirements, if a sequence of demand functions converges to some function with respect to the metric of compact convergence, then the limit is also a demand function. Second, the space of demand functions that have uniform Lipschitz constants on any compact set is compact under the above metric. Third, the mapping from a demand function to the calculated utility function becomes continuous. We also show a similar result on the topology of pointwise convergence.

非光滑可积性斯拉茨基矩阵需求函数效用函数弱序